Let us cook

For this season on coming of age, we asked 5 novice curators to programme a full day for us. They were given a fixed artistic budget and some production constraints. Full of enthusiasm and fresh ideas, they set to work. Dedicating their event to group experience and transcending egos, Ellie Murphy-Weise, Pheobe riley Law, David Wolfswinkel, Koen Gijsman, & Rocio Naval prefer to present themselves as collective Mulch-imédia rather than as a collection of individuals. Let us cook - it means as much as ‘let us do what we do best’. Each curator brings their own expertise and, as a collective, they bring a breath of fresh air to our building.

During a surprise trail through our building, you'll stop at:

Hye Young Sin
Plastic Garden

[continuously, presentation 20 min]

Hye Young Sin has been working on her series Plastic Garden for some time. For Let us cook, the sound artist creates three new plots. Using everyday plastic objects, she imitates the natural sound of a typical ‘pleasure garden’. You can hear crackling, scraping, tapping and everything in between. The result is a collection of intimate, fragile sounds that are neither entirely natural nor entirely plastic.

Emine Bostancı
A Journey to the Sound of Istanbul

[30 min]

‘When I met the kemenche for the very first time, a certainty overwhelmed me: this sound was the closest I would ever come to hearing the divine.’ Emine Bostancı was born in Istanbul, but moved to the Netherlands in 2016. She combines the age-old tradition of kemenche playing with singing and contemporary electronics. Thus, she takes us from our technology-driven present, to the rich tradition of Istanbul.

Pepe Dayaw with Devon Gates & Koen Gijsman
cooking performance Nowhere kitchen

[120 min]

Pepe Dayaw is a performer without a strict genre. The common thread running through each project is community building and togetherness. And what brings people together more than cooking together? While Devon Gates & Koen Gijsman fill the room with easily digestible jazz, Pepe translates their own identity into exuberant cooking. The Nowhere kitchen project once started between friends cooking together with whatever was available in the fridge. Specifically for Let us cook, Pepe reworks the concept for a large audience.